The hosting is allocated to you on a server section in the form of the catalogue in which the information of a site - html-documents is stored, schedule, scripts. The virtual hosting happens paid and conditionally free-of-charge.

With paid hosting service all is clear - you pay the certain money for use of disk space and other services. The free-of-charge hosting, usually receives profit due to advertising which it places on your pages as payment of their services. It can be banners, text references, the advertising frames, emerging windows.

The basic important criterion is a volume of allocated disk space. On free-of-charge hosting services it to be within the limits of 10-50 Mb. Thus it is forbidden to store files of type mp3 and video. On some servers there is a direct restriction, for example the maximal size of a file 2.5 Mb.

When you buy professional paid hosting service, all depends on a monthly user's payment. HSP can offer, for example, 700 Mb disk space for $7 in a month.

Among other criteria of a choice there are additional services. We shall specify the cores:

• cgi-bin a directory;
• Support PHP;
• SSI;
• MySQL.

To beginners, probably, these services and there is nothing, but without them you never will make an interactive site with forums, guest books, search engine and other useful services. Free-of-charge virtual hosting service it is usual anything from the aforesaid do not support.

Also the way of upload information which gives HSP is important. All paid hosting service support FTP protocol on the server side. Free-of-charge hosting services can support upload files on WWW. It is calculated on beginners and not so is convenient. It is obvious, that if download only on WWW neither cgi-bin, nor MySQL on yours account are not stipulated.

For free-of-charge hosting services the type of a domain name - usually it or the domain of 3-rd level of type younname.hoster.ru or simply subdirectory hoster.ru/yourname also is important enough. It is natural, that the domain of 3-rd level is more preferable.

It is desirable that the address of a site was rather short and well remembered. But if you have found very good free-of-charge hosting which is not satisfying you only with type of a name anything terrible is not present also you can take advantage redirect. Besides the some hosting service providers can support domains of 2-nd and 3-rd levels which you have registered, and to support free-of-charge. That is you can pay money for registration of the domain yourname.com, but use a free-of-charge hosting, and in the majority it will be imperceptible for visitors if on this free-of-charge hosting there is no advertising.

We have considered the majority of key parameters, but there are still more many reefs about which hardly will tell HSP, here on it we now and shall stop, that you did not suppose the elementary mistakes.

If to speak about a free-of-charge hosting very much the great value has speed and stability of service. Because hardly it is pleasant to you, if your site will be loaded 3 minutes or in general every Friday will be not accessible. Whether to learn often a server happens it is accessible difficultly, but for this purpose there are various forums where communicate webmasters and it is possible to learn opinion of those who already used this hosting. If you are going to buy a professional paid hosting, necessarily ask test account for 3-7 days to check up service or search in rules for a line about money back within 15 days if something does not arrange you. If to approach to all it is civilized, usually it is possible to reach mutual understanding.

One more subtlety at purchase of a hosting services. Reading rules and tariffs, it is necessary to penetrate closely into everything, as to expenses. It is necessary to be convinced, that there will be no latent payments besides that at once will pay therefore as some smart hosting service providers like for all to raise money. For example, besides usual monthly payment from you can take in the beginning a certain sum for installation, ostensibly that yours account to adjust, they there days and nights do not sleep and work as a dog.

Except for that there can be paid services of a parking and support of your domains of 2-nd and 3-rd level, e-mails, sub domains, opening of databases in addition can cost. Additional money for the overexpenditure of the traffic can as to be raised. It is usual trued for there is a difference if you place a page with attendance 100 person in day or very visited portal, surveyed tens thousand people daily.

Still the support service which in an ideal should operatively within several hours after inquiry has important value answer your questions and give consultation, correct bugs and settle the other trifles arising during using of servers. For check support it is possible to write to them the letter with questions, even before payment of a hosting if to you and have not answered to you will probably not answer and after purchase of a hosting. Though at enough large companies there is a priority of the clients, that is to simply curious comrades, like you, will answer only after will understand with the clients.

In general, at purchase of a hosting there are no unequivocal schemes, but the general sense is those, that before to give money, it is necessary to know as much as possible, that you receive for them, necessarily inquire at other users.